Flood of Mud

The Democrat party has unleashed a torrent of mudslinging to cascade across the American body politic to drown both virtue and reason. These insults range from individual Democrat candidates smearing their Republican opponents to a bizarre national strategy to taint the United States Chamber of Commerce as a nefarious organization trying to subvert the democratic process using foreign money. On the individual candidate front, perhaps those representing the GOP should ask rhetorically or in debate if the Democrats now vilifying them and throwing dirt based on allegations from the distant past (as far back as college in the Rand Paul Kentucky US Senate race) expressed similar misgivings about having Teddy Kennedy serve in positions of leadership for several decades after killing a girl or Robert Byrd directing their party for a half century or so after playing a leading role in the Ku Klux Klan. Nothing any Republican candidate did that is currently running sinks to the level of disgrace that did not disqualify these dirty Democrats (or Barney Frank of the male escort service in his basement scandal, the late Gerry Studds having homosexual relations with an underage page incident, the currently serving New York US Representative Charles Rangel using our tax dollars for his personal fiefdom while not paying his own taxes, or the ongoing allegations against long-time Democrat US House member Maxine Waters, inter alia). A party rolling in a pig waller should be quite cautious when asking who muddied the carpet. And the new jihad against the Chamber of Commerce simply defies logic. Does the Democrat party really want to create the impression that they are at war with business? Evidently so, and far from backing away from that tack, Nancy Pelosi redoubled that attack in an event for a labor union yesterday. Yes, in this hyper-aware era, people are paying close attention to the charges Democrats are making and they will remember them for exactly what they are in November.